Huntsville gazette., 1887-09-03

BY HUNTSVILLE GAZETTE O.
VOLUME VIII.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
Complied from Various Sources.
WILLIAM JOHNSON killed his wife near
p,otep Bow, Neb., on the Goth.
WV postal convention has been
I'D between the United States and
Portugal.
Two attaches of the French War De-
-ortment have been arrested, charged
with high treason
A. Petersburg, w. Va, ex-Congress-
roon Fu5tace Gibson has been jailed for
contempt OF court.
PRIV EDWARD F. DoANE, the American
visionary who was imprisoned on the
roroIine Islands, has been released.
pn,vcr FERDINAND of Bulgaria is de-
.u.ssod IN consequence of the isolation in
r-h;cb he finds himself at home and abroad.
c.Dr,U cyrus N. GRAY, of the
r,-ontv.ffth United States infantry, is to
80 dismissed from the service for drunken
ness.
Tur Canadian Knights of Labor are
obout taking steps to secure the autonomy
of the order in the Dominion without i'm
,,eiring their connection with the general
assembly.
TT is claimed a natural flow of both oil
nd gas has been discovered near Fort
Smelling. MINI. 1t is said that oil comes to
tbe surface in such quantities that it can
easily be gathered in the crude state.
TEE sale of one thousand-mile tickets,
suspended when the Interstate Commerce
act went into force, has been resumed by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. The
rate is twenty dollars, the same prevailing
before the suspension.
JESSE POMEROY, the notorious Massa-
chusetts 'boy murderer" was discovered
In well planned and nearly executed at
tempt to escape from the Charlestown
(Nass.) penitentiary, on the 9th, and was
removed to closer quarters.
YOKOHAMA advices state that the draft
Of the Japanese Civil Code, having been
completed and printed, it is now being
translated into English and French. This
work must be accomplished before the re-
vision of treaties can be resumed.
Hon. Mr.. LARIvIERE. Provincial Secre-
tary and member of the Government of
Manitoba, who is in Montreal, says that
the provincial government are determined
to build the Red River Valley railway at
any cost and in spite of all opposition.
THE government of New South Wales
having offered 200 acres of land to any
missionary society that will undertake to
civilized the natives, the Pope has directed
that Immediate attention be paid to the
oIer in order to forestall Protestant socie-
ties.
AS the result of an elaborate calculation,
If is found that the bonded debt of the
United States has been decreased at the
rate Of S207 for every second, or for every
swing of the pendulum, for the entire
period from August 81, 1860, to July 81,
1887.
GENERAL JOHN C. BLACK, Commissioner
of Pensions, is reported to be quite i'll with
inhammatory rheumatism at the residence
Of Hon. Stilson Hutchins, at Weir, n. H.
Heis there as the guest of the New Hamp-
shire veterans. Three physicians have
been in attendance.
ERAsTUs WIMAN, of New York; Hon.
Ben Butterworth, of Cincinnati, and Prof
Goodwin Smith, of Toronto, Ont, delivered
addresses before a large audience in De-
troit Mich, on the evening of the 9th, on
the subject of commercial union between
tle United States and Canada.
MAYOR HEWITT of New York is de-
ermined TO enforce the provisions of the
'Ee-escape" law passed by the Legisla-
fre last winter He has instructed the
corporation counsel to prosecute all hotel
keepers who failed to place rope long
enough to reach the ground in each room
o. the house.
-hNllNF LAND IOMMISSlONER cIOCk-
aAGER has taken the necessary steps to
larry into effect Secretary Lamar's order
lrecting restoration to settlement and
7atry Of the unimproved indemnity selec-
uoa Of the California & Oregon Railroad
company in California. This will affect
sohe 10000 acres of land.
HE quarrymen employed at the lime
,tone quarries along the river east OF
Youngstown, o., to the number of over 900,
struck on the 9th for an increase of two
cents per ton and semi-monthly payment
wages. Those remaining at work
threatened to join the strikers unless the
demands made were conceded.
PROF. H. s. WHITNEY. of the Excelsior
academy, on the shore of Lake Minneton-
ga was drowned in the lake ON the 25th.
lhree children were playing on a raft
which went to pieces, and he, swimming
cut to save them, became tangled in the
weeds and was drowned. Two of the
children were rescued alive, the third was
drowned.